Mummy Brains
Mummies: Images of the Afterlife will begin touring in September, 2015. Stay tuned to see them visiting a museum near you! http://bit.ly/1zPgGs0 Major thanks to JP Brown and the staff of the...
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We're here with JP Brown, who is the conservator of Pacific Anthropology in the Regenstein Lab here at the Field Museum. But today we're not talking about Pacific Anthropology... - No, today we're talking about Egypt. - And, kind of, ancient Egypt. - Yeah, pretty ancient Egypt. What we're looking at here is the mummy of Pen Ptah, a male from the twenty-fifth dynasty about 2700 years ago, something like that. - That seems pretty ancient to me. - That is fairly ancient. - What are we doing with an Egyptian artifact today? - What we're trying to do is understand more about how Egyptian culture works. The really interesting thing about studying burials is that you don't bury yourself. - Right! - Right? - Oh, yeah. - It's e...
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We're here with JP Brown, who is the conservator of Pacific Anthropology in the Regenstein Lab here at the Field Museum. But today we're not talking about Pacific Anthropology... - No, today we're talking about Egypt. - And, kind of, ancient Egypt. - Yeah, pretty ancient Egypt. What we're looking at here is the mummy of Pen Ptah, a male from the twenty-fifth dynasty about 2700 years ago, something like that. - That seems pretty ancient to me. - That is fairly ancient. - What are we doing with an Egyptian artifact today? - What we're trying to do is understand more about how Egyptian culture works. The really interesting thing about studying burials is that you don't bury yourself. - Right! - Right? - Oh, yeah. - It's e...
